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Keynote speakers and presenters 2009< Back to main Conference page Ann FinlaysonAnn Finlayson, Commissioner for Education and Capability Building, has worked in the environmental field for nearly 30 years, initially in forestry and micro-climate research in upland Britain. After a stint as a countryside ranger in Scotland, she began travelling the world teaching, facilitating and consulting in places such as Papua New Guinea, Australia and Canada. This included: managing environmental education programs; running conferences and workshops; training teachers, NGO staff and interpreters; evaluating large regional programs (British Columbia and Wisconsin); conducting strategic/operational planning for NGO's; developing resources for schools, communities and tourism sectors including designing award-winning training materials. On returning to the UK, she began work for WWF-UK. She was responsible for developing the online approaches to workshops, discussions and networks. She then became the WWF-UK Head of the Social Change department in 2002 taking responsibility for driving forward strategy development in 'Learning for Sustainability' in the education sector, local government, community and business sectors both in the UK and overseas. She is currently Director of the new charity SEEd - Sustainability and Environmental Education She brings to the SDC Education Commissioner post a working knowledge of formal, informal and non-formal education, a broad global perspective on education and has taught everyone from 3 year olds to 70 year olds. She is passionate about the role of learning in sustainability and for it to be about real people, real opportunities and real responsibilities. David KillickFollowing an initial career as an EFL teacher overseas and in Brighton, David Killick has worked at Leeds Metropolitan University for eighteen years. In that time he has had a number of responsibilities, from setting up a now thriving ELT provision to his current academic role as course leader for the institution's Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. David established Leeds Met's international exchange scheme, and its Global Citizen Awards. He has played a significant role in leading Leeds Met's distinctive approach to curriculum internationalisation through cross-cultural capability and global perspectives. His publications, workshops and conference presentations in this area have significantly added to internationalisation debate and practice across the UK. David is currently researching the lived experience of students undertaking international mobility and how this relates to learning and development theory. Stephen SterlingStephen Sterling is Schumacher Reader in Education for Sustainability at the Centre for Sustainable Futures in the University of Plymouth, U.K. and Senior Advisor to the Higher Education Academy Education for Sustainable Development Project. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath, and has worked as a consultant in environmental and sustainability education in the academic and NGO fields nationally and internationally. He was a founder of the Education for Sustainability Masters Programme at London South Bank University, where he retains an academic tutor role. His research interest is in the interrelationships between ecological thinking, systemic change, learning, and sustainability. His key publications include Education for Sustainable Development in the Schools Sector (Sustainable Development Education Panel 1988), Education for Sustainability (Earthscan 1996), Sustainable Education: Re-visioning Learning Change (Green Books 2001), doctoral thesis Whole Systems Thinking as a Basis for Paradigm Change in Education - explorations in the context of sustainability (CREE/U of Bath 2003), and Linking Thinking - new perspectives on learning and thinking for sustainability (WWF Scotland 2005). Espen BergAfter graduating from Bournemouth University, Espen completed an MSc in Development Management at the London School of Economics. He has gained a vast amount of experience with youth in development both academically and professionally. Espen sits on the Advisory Board for U8 Global Student Partnership for Development and was asked to participate in the Youth Guidance Project, a joint working group with professionals and experts on youth from DfiD and the Civil Society. Espen is also the founder and CEO of United Youth Development Organization (UYDO), a youth-led charity focusing on empowering and enabling young people to make a positive difference in their own lives as well as in their communities. Dr Anna MdeeDr Anna Mdee (formerly ‘Toner’) is Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford. She is also a Deputy Director of the Centre for African Studies. Her research focuses on sustainable livelihoods and community-driven development in Africa with a particular focus on Tanzania. She is currently working on a collaborative teaching project with Mzumbe University, Tanzania and is also the co-founder of ‘Village-to-Village’ an NGO working on HIV/AIDS and sustainable agriculture. This organisation has also been organising volunteer placements in Tanzania since 2006. Mark RidolfoMark Ridolfo is a passionate, student-oriented innovator, who has taught at Bournemouth since 1992. Mark has lived and worked in France, Germany and Italy, and travelled extensively, particularly throughout South-East Asia and Australasia. Mark’s academic interests lie in the areas of cross-cultural communication and management, though he also teaches presentations, report-writing and negotiating. In 2003, with his colleague, Bill Beetham, Mark was awarded a Bournemouth University Fellowship for outstanding and innovative work in internationalising the curriculum. As the Business School’s International Projects Co-ordinator, Mark is heavily involved in student recruitment and partnership development, particularly in China, Indonesia and Thailand. Mabel Ann BrownMabel Ann Brown was a Key Stage one, Foundation Stage coordinator and Art coordinator in a large primary school with twenty eight years of experience of working with children. In 2003 she made the change and moved into higher education. In the years since then she has been the programme leader for the Foundation Degree Educare and Early Childhood and an external examiner. Mabel has also worked on the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies and currently works part time on the Foundation Degree Children’s and Young People’s Services. Her research interests have included a study of the changing role of teaching assistants and the benefits of Higher Level Teaching Assistants in the workforce. This led her onto her current research which is a comparative study between Finland and England with particular reference to the Early Years. Currently the Finnish children seem to be out performing the English children and yet they do not start school until they are seven. She would like to feel that her time in Education has made a positive contribution towards meeting the needs of children in the future. Lisa StroudLisa Stroud has worked in the environmental field for over 15 years and currently heads up the Youth Volunteering team at Global Action Plan, which launched the youth-led Climate Squad programme this year. After graduation, Lisa earned an MPhil from Manchester University, studying orangutan behaviour. Subsequently she founded the Orangutan Foundation’s education programme before becoming a freelance educator on sustainability issues. She has worked with a variety of audiences, training teachers on development issues, co-coordinating Chester’s campaign to become Britain’s first Fairtrade city and managing the Sustainable Energy Team and a number of waste reduction projects at Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. Jimmy BrinniganJimmy Brinnigan works with ESD Consulting Ltd which specialises in supporting organisations on the issues and opportunities arising from Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development, often within a procurement context. This involves helping organisations integrate sustainability into business processes and within differing organisational frameworks. Jan Katherine BamfordJan Katherine Bamford is an Academic Leader and the International Student Coordinator for London Metropolitan Business School. Her responsibilities include developing the schools international strategy, the setting up and liaison of transnational joint Masters programmes and the international students in the school. Her research interests include the international student experience, transnational education and the student experience on transnational joint degrees. Harriet Sjerps-JonesHarriet Sjerps-Jones is an experienced designer, lecturer and researcher, using her knowledge of advertising and New Media to communicate sustainability. Her research into ‘student engagement’ and ‘marketing for sustainability’ has informed the strategy for change at Somerset College and the University of Plymouth. She has been involved with curriculum development, has developed communication strategies and has initiated and managed various profile raising sustainability projects. Recent projects include updating the EAUC’s sustainability website for colleges ‘SORTED’ and the design of a visually engaging poster about the Earth Charter targeted at students. Currently she’s working for the Somerset Wildlife Trust. Fiona BoyleFiona Boyle joined Queen Margaret University in September 2007 and has been working in the education sector and industry since 1986. She has taught within Further Education and Higher Education as both a lecturer in Business and Management and English as a Foreign Language and also worked in international recruitment, development and student support. In addition, she has worked in manufacturing industry and managed a small business combining Education and Tourism. Her main interests regarding Employability are Volunteering and developing placements with the Voluntary Sector, Personal Development Planning and Internationalisation. Lindsey AtkinsonLindsey Atkinson works with University of Hull in Staff Development. Among her responsibilities is working to include sustainable development into the Staff Development programme at the University of Hull. She has been working on issues related to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) since 2005 and is currently working on a HEA funded project looking at embedding SD and related employability issues into courses. Lindsey has developed a website giving background and case studies on ESD for staff involved in learning and teaching at the University. Her background is in plant sciences where she has studied the impacts of climate change on plants.
Jo AppletonJo Appleton has been interested in broadening her worldwide horizons ever since she started teaching English as a Foreign Language in Singapore over 15 years ago.
Zoe RobinsonZoe Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science at Keele University. Zoe’s interests are wide ranging, from the behaviour and geochemistry of groundwater in glacial environments and the effect of glacier retreat on groundwater systems, through to student perceptions of environmental citizenship, the pedagogy of climate change and links between employability and sustainability teaching in higher education particularly through an emphasis on sustainable business practices. Zoe is a founding member of the Science for Sustainability group at Keele (www.esci.keele.ac.uk/sfs) which provides sustainability-related workshops and resources for school children, school teachers and the general public. Zoe is also course director for the BSc programmes at Keele in Environment and Sustainability and Applied Environmental Science.
Neil AlldredNeil Alldred is the Director of the International Development Programme at the University of Ulster. He worked for well over 20 years in Africa, initially in teaching, lecturing and research, and then in successive development programme management functions in national programmes for UK-based NGOs such as Oxfam and ActionAid, and then in panAfrican institutions. His task at Ulster is to promote the embedding of international development in teaching, research and practice in as many different University contexts as possible.
Elizabeth GrantLiz is Principal Teaching Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, University College London. She is responsible for the development and implementation of pedagogic mechanisms enabling the integration of an international and intercultural dimension within the teaching and learning process. She has worked on research and development projects driven by the range of internationalisation agendas across the HE sector within Post 92, 1994 and Russell Group institutions for over nine years. She is especially interested in participative approaches to Academic Development and has worked on programme design in collaboration with Gondar University, Ethiopia. She is currently developing a similar project with Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Brigitte PicotBrigitte is Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching at University College London - a large and complex research university. She is responsible for the implementation of a number of institution-wide strategies which have a direct impact on the student learning experience. She leads a team of educational developers who design and deliver a range of programmes to support teaching and learning across UCL. She works with stakeholders at senior level in the university to identify institutional policies which underpin the effective implementation of pedagogic aspects of UCL’s key agendas, one of which being the internationalisation of the curriculum. In 2008-9 Liz Grant and Brigitte Picot started to work with academics and students across the institution to explore contemporary agendas and definitions influencing the interpretations of the internationalisation of the curriculum and of global citizenship. Brigitte was responsible for a short film sponsored by the Higher Education Academy entitled 'Your Life, Your World, Your Future', in which UCL students reflect on what 'global citizenship' means to them. > View the 'Your Life, Your World, Your Future' video
Gillian Calvin ThomasGillian Calvin Thomas is a Registered Social Worker and Practice Educator. Entering academia after a long career in social work she is now the Senior Lecturer for Practice Learning for the BA Social Work course in Bournemouth University maintaining her passionate interest in practice. She has been involved in a number of research projects since joining the university. Gill and her colleague received a prize in 2008 for their outstanding contribution to learning in setting up a mentoring project for Black and Ethnic Minority students undertaking practice learning. |
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